【Guidelines : JNS-SfN Travel Award Exchange Program】

• Applicants must hold the status of a PhD candidate or a postdoctoral scholar, residing and working in Japan.
• JNS membership in good standing with no unpaid annual membership fee on the application deadline. (One can become a member of JNS within a few days.)
• The applicant must be the first author of an abstract submitted to the SfN Annual Meeting, and s/he must have completed the abstract submission to SfN before applying to the JSN-SfN Travel Award.
• Candidates must not have received another travel award within the same year.

• 2,500 US dollars equivalent (the award will be provided in JPY)
  Award cash is remitted to recipients about two weeks before the SfN meeting.
  Note: The award cash must be used for the trip to attend the SfN 2024 meeting.
• Complimentary conference registration (SfN will refund the conference fee later)
  *Abstract submission fee and the membership fee of SfN are not waived.

• International Fellows Orientation Session (to be held during the SfN meeting)
• International Fellows Poster Session (to be held during the SfN meeting)
  The awardees are required to attend all these events. Further information on these events will be directly provided by SfN to the awardees.

• All the materials, including the advisor’s recommendation, should be written in English.
• All application documents must reach the JNS office (jns-sfn_program@jnss.org) by the deadline.
• The JNS Secretariat will send an e-mail acknowledgment to each applicant upon receipt of submission. If the applicant does not receive any reply within five days after submission, the applicant should check with the Secretariat.

• All the materials should be combined into a single pdf file.

• File Name: Your JNS Membership ID + your name.pdf
• The subject of the E-mail: Application to JNS-SfN Travel Award

• Application format

• Name
• Institution and Department
• Address
• E-mail
• JNS membership ID
• Gender (Male or Female) (optional)
• Statement of intent (200-250 words) that provides the summary of the applicant’s motivation and purpose for attending the meeting.
• One-page letter of recommendation from the applicant’s academic advisor

• One-page curriculum vitae that includes the following information.

• Education and professional experience, if any: please explicitly mention the date when the applicant received (or is expected to receive) his/her Ph.D. degree.
• Honors/awards, if any.
• Bibliography of all peer-reviewed and invited publications, as well as meeting abstracts.
  *If you cannot fit it in one page, you can submit additional pages.

• Copy of the abstract submitted to this year’s SfN meeting.

The application deadline: Tuesday, May 7, 2024 at 17:00 p.m. (JST)